Playing videos on your ipod nano?

Vegeta · 12 Mar 2006 at 14:12

Hi is there any chance you can play videos on your ipod nano? I heard a rumour that this can be done via software, anyone know if its true?

Mikey1280 · 12 Mar 2006 at 14:17

You can play videos on Ipod photo if you install an ipod friendly version of linux (cannot remember what its called) so there is no reason why this cannot be done on the nano as well.

Al Vallario · 12 Mar 2006 at 15:01

Check out this post on TUAW. You will need to format the iPod, install iPodLinux and the iPodLinux Video Player, and I wouldn't recommend embarking on such a project unless you are aware of the dangers (Losing all the music on the iPod, possibly killing it etc.).

There's a video of the iPodLinux Video Player in action here and a 21 minute long instructional video on getting to that stage here

Vegeta · 12 Mar 2006 at 18:05

cheers fellas exactly what i was looking for, you can kill your ipod? How is it because it doesnt have the power to run videos? is it like overclocking a graphics card past its best?

Al Vallario · 12 Mar 2006 at 18:20

Vegeta said:
cheers fellas exactly what i was looking for, you can kill your ipod? How is it because it doesnt have the power to run videos? is it like overclocking a graphics card past its best?

Well, you couldn't really kill it, but I'm sure it's possible to mess up the hard drive (or solid state storage in the case of the nano) quite badly. Watching the instructional video, there are a lot of things which beg the question "What happens if I do it wrong?" As the guy who made the video mentions, "so far not one iPod has been "bricked" from installing iPodLinux, but anything is possible"